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| In memory of In memory of MRS JANE ROBERT McMURPHY McMURPHY wife of Robert ESQR McMURPHY Who died Esqr. who died Jan. 20, 1814 Dec. 31, 1764 Aged 91 aged 84 Years Years |
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| closeup of the double urns carved above the epitaph |
Robert McMurphy was the son of John McMurphy and Mary Cargill, immigrants from Northern Ireland. He was born on 30 January 1724/5 and married Jane Shirley on 10 March 1747/8. She was the daughter of John Shirley, born in Northern Ireland in 1688, died 1764 in Chester, New Hampshire.
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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
Those are wonderful headstones, Heather. I haven't seen any double stones like this one. And what long-lived settlers they were. Thanks for sharing these.
ReplyDeleteCelia, the "Settlers Row" in Forest Hill Cemetery is full of double gravestones. I think they are very sentimental, and I don't see a lot of them elsewhere. I wonder if it is a custom they brought from Scotland or Northern Ireland?
ReplyDeleteVery cool double stone! I love the two urns that share a willow.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous stone. I didn't know that there were Scots Irish settlers in New England!
ReplyDeleteKaren, in 1719 Nutfield, New Hampshire was the first permanent Scots Irish settlement in North America. They soon renamed it from Nutfield to Londonderry.
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